Torquemada
Americannoun
noun
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Torquemada announced a contest to solve the book in the Observer, promising successful entrants a prize of 25 pounds, or roughly $2,500 today.
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022
In the final film, Brooks takes center stage during this segment, hamming it up as the grand inquisitor Torquemada.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022
Torquemada may have been the driving force behind the Spanish Inquisition, but Ruy Lopez is the far more famous Spanish prelate of the time, to go by Google hits.
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2021
There’s dramatic irony in the fact that he does not know Man was his Torquemada.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2021
He therefore expedited a brief in 1494, saying, that as Torquemada had arrived at a great age, and suffered from many infirmities, he had named four inquisitors-general, invested with the same powers which he possessed.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
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